Philip Stratton-Lake

Professor of Philosophy

University of Reading

 

 

  


Philip Stratton-Lake joined the Department in 1998. Before that he was lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Keele University. He was Secretary of the UK Kant Society from 1994-2001, and was Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs, St. Andrews in 1996. He is currently Head of Department and is co-director of the Impartiality in Ethics project (2005-2008).

 

PRIMARY INTERESTS

  • Kant
  • Ethical Intuitionism, especially W. D. Ross
  • Meta-ethics
  • Normative Ethics

 

PUBLICATIONS:
AUTHORED BOOK:

Kant, Duty and Moral Worth (Routledge: London, 2000. Paperback edition, 2004).

For a video of the 'Author Meets Critics' session on this book click on the panel photograph to the right

EDITED BOOKS:

On What We Owe to Each Other: Scanlon's Contractualism. (Blackwell: Oxford, 2004)  

 

Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002)
Ross's The Right and the Good, including new introduction, editor's notes, bibliography, and expanded index (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002). (Italian translation forthcoming) 

Read Mark Timmons's review of this volume here.

 

Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Section Editor for Classical Idealism.  (Simon Glendinning (General Editor) Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1999).

 

PAPERS:

Intuitionism’in Routledge Companion to Ethics, John Skorupski (ed), (forthcoming).

 

‘Ethical Choice’, in Central Issues of Philosophy, John Shand (Ed), Blackwell: Oxford, forthcoming.

 

‘Being virtuous and the virtues: Two aspects of Kant’s doctrine of virtue’. In Moniker Betzler (Ed.), Kant's Virtue Ethics, (Walter deGruyter: New York – Berlin, 2007).

 

'Ross and Kant on Right-Making', in Proceedings of Kant's Seminar, Zia Movahed (ed), (Iranian Institute of Philosophy: Tehran, 2007), 129-146.

'Scanlon versus Moore on Goodness’, with Brad Hooker. In Metaethics After Moore, Mark Timmons (ed), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 149-168.)

‘Moral Motivation in Kant’ (7,500 words), in The Blackwell Companion to Kant. G. Bird (ed). Blackwell: Oxford, 2006.

 

Prichard, Harold Arthur (1871-1947), in Anthony Ellis (ed) Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers. Thoemmes Press, forthcoming.

 

Ross, William, David (1877-1971), in Anthony Ellis (ed) Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers. Thoemmes Press, forthcoming.

 

“G. E. Moore: Principia Ethica”. In The Central Works of Philosophy, vol. 4. John Shand (ed). Acumen, Chesham, 2005, 20-37.

'How to Deal With Evil Demons: Comment on Rabinowicz and Ronnow-Rasmussen'. Ethics, 2005, 115, 788-798.

‘Ethical Intuitionism’, General Encyclopedia of Philosophy (in Polish), The Polish Society of Thomas Aquinas, 2004.

'Scanlon, permissions, and redundancy: Response to McNaughton and Rawling', Analysis, 63.3 (2003).

'Scanlon's Contractualism and the Redundancy Objection', Analysis, 63.1 (2003) pp. 70-76.

Introduction to W. D. Ross's The Right and the Good, (Oxford University Press 2002) pp. ix-xlix.

Introduction to Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations, (OUP, 2002) pp. 1-28.

“Pleasure and Reflection in Ross’s Intuitionism”.  In Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations, (OUP, 2002), pp. 113-136.

“Expression, Description, and Normativity: Simon Blackburn’s Ruling Passions”, Res Publica, vol. 6, no. 1 (2000), pp. 117-125.

“Marcel, Hope, and Virtue”, in Sartre and The French Existentialists, James Giles (ed.), Rodopi: Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1999, pp.139-153.

“Recent Work on Kant’s Ethics”, Philosophical Books, vol. 40, 1999, pp.209-218.

“Why Externalism is not a Problem for Ethical Intuitionists”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. XCIX, part 1, 1999, pp.77-90.

Introduction to Section on Classical Idealism, Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1999, pp. 23-31.

"Kant's Transcendental Idealism", in Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1999, pp. 33-44.

“Internalism and the explanation of Belief/Motivation Changes”, Analysis, 58, 1998, pp.311-315.

"Kant and Contemporary Ethics”, Kantian Review, Volume 2, 1998, pp.1-13.

"Hope", Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, 1998, pp. 507-510.

"Marcel", Companion to Continental Philosophy, Ed. S. Critchley, Blackwell: Oxford, 1998, pp. 340-346.

“Can Hooker’s Rule-Consequentialist Principle Justify Ross’s Prima Facie duties?”, Mind, vol. 106, October 1997, pp.751-758.

“Christine Korsgaard’s Creating the Kingdom of Ends”, (review article) The Kantian Review, vol.1, 1997, pp.177-185.

"In Defence of the Abstract", Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 33, 1996, pp.42-53.

"Formulating Categorical Imperatives", Kant-Studien, 83, 1993, pp.317-340.

"Reason, Appropriateness and Hope: Sketch of a Kantian Account of a Finite Rationality", International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol.1 (1), 1993, pp.61-80.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Common Morality, by Bernard Gert. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (reprinted in Teaching Ethics, Fall 2006), pp1-5.

G. E. Moore’s Ethical Theory: Resistance and Reconciliation, by Brian Hutchinson. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002.09.09

"Virtue, Vice and Value. By Thomas Hurka". Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.

“Kantian Consequentialism.   By David Cummiskey”, Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 196, 1999, pp.422-425.

“Andrews Reath, Barbara Herman, and Christine Korsgaard (eds): Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls.”  International Journal of Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.

“J. Charvet: The Idea of an Ethical Community”. Mind, 106, Jan. 1997, pp. 169-171.

Ludwig Siep: Praktische Philosophie Im Deutschen Idealismus”, Bulletin for the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 34, 1996, pp.50-52.

"R. C. Solomon and K. M. Higgins (eds): The Age of German Idealism”.  British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 3, September 1995, pp. 465-466.

"Andrew Bowie: Schelling and Modern European Philosophy: An Introduction", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 3, Feb. 1995, pp.195-197.

"Anthony Savile: Kantian Aesthetics Pursued", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2, 1, 1994, pp.192-195.

"Reinhard Brandt: D'Artagnan und die Urteilstafel", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 1, no. 2, September 1993, pp.165-167.

"Critique of Pure Freedom: Henry Allison, Kant's Theory of Freedom", Radical Philosophy, Vol. 59, Autumn 1991, pp.49-51.

 

TEACHING MATERIAL

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